Capitolo 7
known you/he/she has taken their increase in the conquest of civilized and cultivated
raced by Barbaric invaders; and what the Barbaric invaders rarely have
or it never learned the practical arts and manual art that are the
element of civilising in the life of the people conquered around them.
To start with the aristocracies most known to the most greater part of us, the noble
families of modern and mediaeval that Europe has jumped, as a whole, from the
Teutonic invasion of the Roman empire. In Italy, it was the Lombards and
the Goths that formed the mass of the great dominant families; all the
aristocratic and notorious names of mediaeval Italy is without exception
Teutonic. In Gaul it was the ill-mannered Frank that gave the aristocrat
element to the mixed nationality, while it was being the civilized one and
cultivated Romano-Celtic provincial who became, from fate, the lake
_roturier_. The great revolution, has been said well, it was, ethnically
speaking, nothing more than the revolt of the Celtic against the
Teutonic fraction; and, it is probable that one also adds, the revolt of the civilized one
Servant of the glebe of Romanised against the Barbaric _seigneur_. In Spain, the hidalgo is,
only the _hi of al Go_, the Goth's child the descendant of those ill-mannered
Visigothic conquerors that broke the old civilisation of Iberian and
Romanised Hispania. And so above in everything. All on Europe, if You care
You will find to look nearby, the aristocrat was the child of the intrusive one
barbarian; the democrat was the child of the civilized old man and cultured
people of autochthonous.
It is only elsewhere the same, wherever we turn. Takes Greece, for
example. Its more aristocratic state was undoubtedly Sparta, where a
handful of Barbaric Dorians essentially contained in control a more great and
Population of Helotised of original and taller civilisation. Takes the East: the
Persian it was a wild adventurer of mountain as that it imposed him a
aristocrat on the far more cultivated Babylonian, Assyrian and
Egyptian. The same kind of thing was happened first in time in